We are being spoilt with some fabulous stories from new entrants. The latest in our April competition is from Stephanie Dagg. Read her entry Bushwalking in Sydneyhere.

Stephanie Dagg

I'm an English expat living in France, having moved here with my family in 2006 after fourteen years as an expat in Ireland. I now consider myself a European rather than 'belonging' to any particular country. The last ten years have been interesting, to put it mildly. Taking on seventy-five acres with three lakes, two hovels and one cathedral-sized barn, not to mention an ever increasing menagerie, makes for exciting times. The current array of animals includes alpacas, llamas, huarizos (alpaca-llama crossbreds, unintended in our case and all of them thanks to one very determined alpaca male), sheep, goats, pigs, ducks, geese, chickens and turkeys, not forgetting our pets of dogs, cats, zebra finches, budgies and Chinese quail. Before we came to France all we had was a dog and two chickens, so it's been a steep learning curve.

I'm married to Chris and we have three bilingual TCKs (third culture kids) who are resilient and resourceful and generally wonderful.

I'm a traditionally-published author of many children's books, and am now self-published too. When not writing and editing, the rest of the time I'm running carp fishing lakes with Chris and inevitably cleaning up some or other animal's poop.​

Thanks Ronald. It's exactly a year since my trip to Australia, and I constantly think about my time there. It was a huge, amazing adventure from start to finish. I hope to return there before too much longer, and this time with my husband. He was left behind to run the farm and business while I went gallivanting off on my own to visit our daughter! Good job he loves me ;-)